Tad Bennett Email & Phone Number

Augusta, Georgia, United States

Fort Gordon, GA

• Managed and resourced the data center consisting of a variety of network devices and 400+ virtualized information systems.
• Directed large teams with diverse functional and technical disciplines to assess infrastructure.
• Identified, designed, and implemented new systems to support growing needs of the organization.
• Developed, evaluated, and provided instruction for the new curricula in network penetration testing, ethical hacking, system exploitation, incident handling, intrusion and network analysis, Windows and Unix/Linux.
• Mentored and trained students of varying experience levels on advanced information security administration and the culminating capstone event for each course.

Howell, NJ

• The TWI program is an opportunity for a US Army Soldier to work with industry leaders to learn, grow, and bring skills and best business practices back to the Army.
• Technical lead for several scenarios offered to the information security community including capture-the-flag challenges at the RSA conference, SANS HackFest, and DigiGirlz Delaware challenges.
• Contributed to components of the SANS 2016 Holiday Hack Challenge and NetWars providing content and quality control testing.
• Conducted product penetration tests involving custom wireless, mobile apps, and related infrastructure.

Fort Eustis, Virginia

• Developed, implemented, and enforced cybersecurity standards and procedures conducting assistance visits, vulnerability and risk assessments, advised on cybersecurity requirements, and regulations, assisted in.
• Advised the leadership on cybersecurity issues and provides guidance to Information Assurance Managers (IAM).
• Coordinated cybersecurity actions between various government agencies

Afghanistan

• Oversaw the protection and defense the military network in Afghanistan.
• Coordinated, reported, and directed all information assurance (IA) requirements to support Coalition Forces throughout Afghanistan
• Provided direct leadership to 16 personnel managing 24-hour operations.

Fort Gordon

Ft Lewis, WA

Network operations for 17th Fires Brigade. Responsible for the installation and operation of the brigade's network infrastructure. Equipment includes Cisco 2950, 3560, and 3750 switches, Cisco 2811 and 3825 routers, Cisco Communications Manager ver 4.3, and Cisco ASA 5510. Network management software includes SNMPc and Solar Winds tools.

Deagu, Korea

Manage the automations help desk for 19th Sustainment Command. Responsible for Windows XP and Vista administration, management of active directory and exchange services for all personel, and all services on the LAN.